Captain James Jack was responsible for delivering Mecklenburg County's declaration of independence from British rule. On the morning of May 20th, 1775, a group of prominent male citizens unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence and called upon Captain James Jack to deliver it to Congress meeting in Philadelphia. He rode from Charlotte to Philadelphia, a trip reported to take 18-20 days by horseback. The declaration was given to North Carolina delegates, an act ahead of even Congress' decision to declare independence from Britain.

Butler recounts the story of a Charlotte couple, James T. and Anne Duckworth, who started the fad of blowing rainbow bubbles, which has developed into a $2.5 million business in just eighteen months. It began humbly in a Charlotte garage with an old garden rake used to stir the bubble solution in a 55-gallon barrel. Life magazine called it the nation's \"first genuine post war fad and the perfect form of relaxation from war--quiet, inconsequential and fascinating.\" After that the business took off.

Bragg was the only North Carolinian to achieve the full rank of general during the Civil War. Many controversies remain in connection with the campaigns he waged. No one could doubt his courage, but his greatest liability was his failure to follow-up his success on the battlefield and reap the fruits of victory at places like Perryville, Kentucky and Chattanooga, Tennessee.